The temperature of the core is pulled from MSI Afterburner with the max reading used after a completed run off 3DMark Vantage and the Performance preset.

This is very impressive, coming in a whole 11c cooler than the reference card. No doubt the main plan behind the Phantom series is the cooling, hence that giant cooler setup; but we know that just because it's big doesn't mean it will work well. Fortunately, this one works very well as our graph suggests.